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The Right to Lie: Google’s “Web Environment Integrity” Proposal is a Geyser of Badness Threatening to Swamp the Open Web.

July 29, 2023

If your computer can’t lie to other computers, then it’s not yours. This is a fundamental principle of free and

January 19, 2023

I just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,

November 21, 2022

The number twelve is a lie; I just wanted to hook you. More than a year ago, my friend Jim

April 8, 2021

There’s a petition circulating that is essentially a public indictment of Richard Stallman. More than half of the initial signers

February 5, 2021

% So, why are we not using \appdxsection here? % % Sit down, my child, and you shall hear a

June 24, 2020

I decided to try out this lossless text-compression demonstration site by Fabrice Bellard. It uses GPT-2 natural language generation and

May 8, 2020

Have you noticed how Trump consistently says that “we can’t let the cure be worse than the problem“? (emphasis mine)

May 3, 2020

I wrote a semi-personal post over at QuestionCopyright.org on why the National Emergency Library is a good thing. (Instead of

September 26, 2019

Update (2019-11-25): Audrey Eschright has made a link roundup of “pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free